(CNS): Eight-year-old primary student Tyler Anglin is suing the government over a breach of his human rights, having been in isolation for over three weeks as a result of continued positive COVID-19 tests, even though he was asymptomatic and health officials could not show he was contagious. In the first case of its kind in the local courts, the boy, through his mother, Dione Anglin, is arguing that his rights and freedoms were threatened by the government and its isolation policy, and that constantly testing him was unlawful and irrational.
The defendants in the suit are the attorney general as the first respondent and the Health Services Authority as the second.
On 26 January, Tyler Anglin had mild COVID symptoms and a lateral flow test showed he was positive. He had a positive PCR test on 28 January, by which time he was asymptomatic but had Ct values of 23.79 (N1), 23.58 (E-SarbecoV) and was directed to isolate at home.
Although he was not unwell, the boy…
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